{{Short description|English porter brewery}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Calvert & Co''' was an English porter brewery in the eighteenth century. Calvert brewed at the City of London brewery.<ref name=autogenerated1>[http://barclayperkins.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/city-of-london-brewery-decides-to-move.html Shut up about Barclay Perkins: The City of London Brewery decides to move<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Between 1784 and 1791 it was the second largest brewery in the world in terms of production volume.<ref name=autogenerated1 />
==History== The Hour Glass Brewery was founded at 89 Thames Street by 1431.<ref name="RichmondTurton1990">{{cite book|author1=Lesley Richmond|author2=Alison Turton|title=The Brewing Industry: A Guide to Historical Records|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NB8NAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA103|date=1 January 1990|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-3032-1|pages=103–4}}</ref> The Calvert family acquired it in 1730.<ref name="RichmondTurton1990" /> In 1805 a fire destroyed the premises. In 1860 the City of London Brewing Company was formed to acquire Calverts.
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